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user-inactivated  ·  2451 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why can't we all admit that violent video games are sick?

http://archives.forusa.org/blogs/ivan-boothe/5-reasons-targeting-violence-media-wont-help-heal-our-society/12004

Want to make people REALLY and I mean REEEEEEAAAAALY uncomfortable? Ask how many of these kids are from divorced families. Ask how many are from single mother homes. Ask how many of these kids are from homes where the parents lost their jobs due to globalization. How many of these kids have been drug through the family court grinder.

As movies and media has become more violent, crime went down. But blaming movies and games? you can do something about that. Broken homes and divorces? Good luck fixing that and ever winning an election again.